Else Kröner Clinician Scientist Return-To-Work Grant

The aim is to enable an effective reentry and the continuation of a promising career for physicians who are particularly successful in the clinical and research sectors, both women and men, subsequent to a longer family- or supervisory care-related phase by utilizing flexible and individually deployable funding.
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Else Kröner Clinician Scientist Return-To-Work Grant
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An overview of the projects funded from the funding line “Else Kröner Clinician Scientist Return-To-Work Grant” can be found here.

For physicians who take a longer time-out for family- or care-related commitments, the decision in favor of parental leave, child care or caring for relatives poses an obstacle to further advancement of their academic careers. Commitments like these are viewed as one of the reasons why, on average, women in Germany reach top academic positions less often. In light of this situation, in 2023 the foundation Else Kröner-Fresenius-Stiftung (EKFS) announced a call for applications for the first time to apply for a flexibly designable reentry program in the field of medicine. The individually deployable funding resources amount to 400,000 euros in each case.